The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation

October 22 - 24, 2014

The Department of Interior Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) and Climate Science Centers (CSCs) are non-regulatory conservation partnerships that have been established to help respond to climate change and other environmental stressors that transcend jurisdictional lines and are priorities for multiple federal and state agencies. Working together to provide scientific information, tools, and decision support for conservation and large connected areas that sustain natural and cultural resources in a rapidly changing world, the LCCs and CSCs have successfully collaborated in the challenging area of landscape conservation. In this session, LCC and CSC representatives will present examples of how these organizations are partnering to conserve complex landscapes and ecosystems in the face of climate change. In particular, projects across the country have produced tools and other products that are being used by natural resource managers to develop climate adaptation strategies for increasing ecosystem resilience and sustainability.